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From: JWANKERL@UTCVM.BITNET ("Josef W. Wankerl")
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Subject: Re: Vulcan hard drives for IIGS
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Date: 15 Jan 90 15:47:40 GMT
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On Mon, 15 Jan 90 06:02:05 GMT The Insane Hermit said:
>  My only other thing I feel worth
>mentioning is that you can only have 4 active partitions at once as opposed to
>the Inner Drive which I think will handle more.  If you have any questions that
>this has raised feel free to mail me.
>
>						The Insane Hermit
>						The Zip-Man
>						qig@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
>						Chris Eleveld

The number of partitions is a limit imposed by ProDOS, not the hard
drive or the software, I believe.  Applied Engineering supplied a
patch to ProDOS with my documentation to raise this limit to 8.

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